Assessment of sulfate sources in high-elevation Asian precipitation using stable sulfur isotopes

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 4728-4733

  Pruett, Lee E ^a   Kreutz, Karl J ^a   Wadleigh, Moire ^b   Aizen, Vladimir ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DUST; IONS; ISOTOPES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXING; PRECIPITATION (CHEMICAL); REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CONCENTRATION RATIOS; EVAPORITE DUST; SULPHUR ISOTOPE MEASUREMENT; TWO-COMPONENT MIXING SYSTEMS;

SULFUR;

ISOTOPE; OXYGEN; SULFATE; SULFUR;

PRECIPITATION QUALITY; SULFATE; SULFUR ISOTOPE;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASIA; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ERIODICTYON; GEOGRAPHIC ELEVATION; MEASUREMENT; PRECIPITATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SAMPLE; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

AIR POLLUTANTS; ASIA, CENTRAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ICE; ICE COVER; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; SNOW; SULFATES; SULFUR ISOTOPES;

ASIA; EURASIA;

ERIODICTYON;

EID: 4544332599     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es035156o     Document Type: Article

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